Watch-hand remover.



PATENTED JUNE 12, 1906.

E. N. PARKER. WATCH HAND RBMOVER. APPLICATION TILED DEC. 21. 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I ERASTUS N. PARKER, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSAOH USETTS.

' I WATCH-HAND REMOVER- N 0. 823,289. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 21, 1905. Serial No. 292,801.

Patented June 12, 1906.

To all whom it may concern:

or tweezers having the opposite upwardly- Be it known that I, ERASTUS N. PARKER,

united members a (1, having at their free lower extremities angularly and inwardly turned wedge-shaped members I) b, which are adapted for engagement about a center pivot or lcilour-hand pipe and under the watch- B represents an extension-arm which is laterally ofiset from the members a a and has its lower bearing extremity terminating at a plane approximately coincident with the lower jaws of theimplement and adapted to constitute a fulcrum on a watch-dial at any suitable point radially outside of the handcarrying pivot, on which fulcrum the device may be rocked or swung to impart the lifting movement to the inturned members or jaws for the upwardly forcing of the watch-hand ofl' from the pivot or part on which it is frictionally fitted The said offset extension B has at its lower end a downwardly-open socket d, in which is fitted a block of rubber f or other non-abrasive material, the lower Hampden and State of Massachusetts, invented certain new and useful Improvements in Watch-Hand Removers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of devices which have for their object the removal of the minute and hour hands of watches from the staff or center pivot and from the sleeve-like hub or pipe of the hour-wheel.

A leading object is to produce a tool or implement for the removal of the watch-hands which is incapable in use of gouging, abrador otherwise marring the enamel on the,

Another object is to provide improved means in the device for the retention therein of the watch-hand after being Withdrawn om the pivot or pipe, enablin the watch maker or repairer to readily tale the hand with the fingers from the hand-removing device and saving in many cases the trouble and delay of picking the hand up from its flat-lying position to which it usually falls on the dial.

Another object is to so construct the device (made with a laterally-offset extension arm or member for rendering the tool capable of the advanta eous and non-abrasive use above mentione as to permit of a most compact disposition of the component parts one relatively to the other for a manifest advantage.

. The invention consists in the combinations of parts and the constructions of certain of the parts, all substantially as hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the improved watch-hand remover as applied in use. Fi 2 isa vertical section through a portion of the device, on a somewhat enlarged scale, taken on the line 2 2, Fi 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the watch-hand remover, showing a modification in the specific construction of the means for positively imparting the required movements to the hand-retainer.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

.In the drawings, A represents a pincers low the mouth of the socket-piece (Z.

In the use of hand-removers as formerly generally made the pincer-jaws, after their enga ement under the hand, have been given a roc g movement, prying against the face of the dial adjacent the center pivot, with the result of often injuring the enamel on the dial; but as the implement is here made and used the pincer-jaws have their hand-re moving movement entirely upwardly along the axis of the pivot and away from the face of the dial and with absolutely no liability of injuring the latter.

Inasmuch as ordinarily after the watchhand is detached from the pivot or pipe by the pincer-jaws it is liable to slide out from between the jaws and fall onto the dial or elsewhere, necessitating trouble and time for its recovery, I have in this device combined an improved retainer cooperating with the jaws and for holding the hand removed from the watch against the jaws, leaving the hand still in the grasp of the device and in readiness to be taken therefrom by the fingers. To this end, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, I mount on a pivot-screw g, which horizontally screw-engages into one of the side members a from the inner side a disk h, having a diameter slightly greater than the width of the jaw, so that opposite peripheral portions of the disk stand portion of such block protruding slightly be' vented from entirely closing outwardly beyond the opposite edges of the side member a, and whereby by thumb and finger the disk may be easily rotationally moved on its pivot-screw. This disk carries a radial extension t of yielding material such, for instance, as elastic rubberwhich by a proper turning of the disk is brought into roximity with the pincer-jaws b b and to hold the hand between such yielding radial extension and the approached jaws. As specifically constructed the disk is made cupshaped and with a central hub j, having a countersunk socket k for the accommodation of the head of the pivot-screw g.

The extension i may advantageously be constituted by a flat rubber band, an outer loop of which serves as the watch-hand retainer, while an inner loop thereof is engaged through a radial aperture m in the outer rim of the cup-shaped disk and in part located in the annular space within the disk.

In a tool of this general description it is highly desirable that the wedge-shaped and more or less sharp pincer-jaws b I) may be pre together, where they might act as cut-nippers for severing in whole or in part the pivot or pipe, and in Figs. 1 and 2 it will be perceived. that the screw 9 constitutes an adjustable stop for regulating the degree to which the aws may be closed.

The side members a opposite the one in which the pivot-screw has its supporting engagement is made with a perforation n opposite the center of the screw-head and some what smaller than the diameter of such head and yet large enough to permit the insertion through such perforation of a fine watchmakers screw-driver for turning the screw inwardly or outwardly.

In Fig. 3 the hand-retaining device consists in a substantially vertical bar 0, having a slot 0 longitudinally in an intermediate portion thereof and provided at its lower end with a block of rubber t or the like, together with a disk 7L2, pivotally mounted and rotatable on the inner face of one of the side members a and having an eccentric stud t, connected with the upper end of the bar 0, and through the said slot 0 is engaged a stud a, which is affixed to and inwardly extends from one of the side members a, said stud a serving to constrain the bar vertically in the motion imparted thereto by the disk-carried eccentric stud, and said stud u by being made of a proper length serves as a stop for preventing a too close approaching of the hand-lifting jaws when the pincer side members are forced together.

While I claim the inclusion in my improved device of a laterally-offset extension to constitute a fulcrum on the dial at a piont radially outside of the center pivot and of any appropriate form or character, I prefer to make this extension in the form of a third leg, as shown, and pivotally connected between and at an upper portion of the pincers side members, as thereby when the implement is not in use the extension may be folded closely and longitudinally within and along the members a a.

I claim 1. A watch-hand remover consisting of opposite tweezer-like members having at their free extremities thin inwardly-turned members, and said device comprising an extension which is laterally offset from the plane of approaching movements of the said members, and the lower bearing extremity of which terminates outside of and approximately level with the lower ends of the tweezer-like members,

and adapted to con.

stitute a fulcrum on a watch-dial, remote from the place of engagement of said membe rocked or bers, on which the device may swung.

2. In a watch-hand remover the combination with a pinoers having ties thereof inwardly approached, and for the free extremr engagement about a staff and under a watch- 4 hand, of a watch-hand-retaining member located between p the opposite pincermembers,

movable in a direction toward and away i from said inwardly-approached extremities, 1

and having a bearing portion composed of. elastic rubber or like yielding material, and means for imparting the movements to said retainer.

3. In a watoh-hand remover the combination with a pincershaving ties thereof inwardly approached and adapted for engagement ber located between the opposite pincers. member, and consisting of a disk pivotally. mounted on a horizontal axis on the inner the free extrem1- about a staff and under a watch-hand, of a watch-hand-retaining memside of one of the pincer members and provided with a radially-extending portion of yielding material.

4. In a watch-hand remover the combination with a pincers having the free extremities thereof inwardly approached, and for engagement about a staff hand, of a watch-hand-retaining. member lo cated between the opposite pincer members, movable in a direction toward and away from said inwardly-approached. extremities, means for imparting the move and under a watchments to said retainer, and an extension lat 7 erally offset from the implement and having 7 its lower .extremity adapted to constitute a rocking fulcrum.

5. In a watch-hand remover the combination with opposite tweezer-hke members hav- 7 ing at their free extremities thin angularly and inwardly turned members, of an extension-arm pivotally connected to and between an upper portion of the implement, and hav ing its lower bearing extremity terminated at a plane approximately coincident with the lower end of the implement and said exten sion-arm when outwardly swung being adapted to constitute a fulcrum on which the device may be rocked or swung.

6. In a watch-hand remover the combination with tweezer-like members having at their free extremities thin angularly and inwardly turned members and a stop for limiting the degree to W 'ch the opposite members may be approached, of an extension-arm pivotally connected to and between an uper portion of the implement, and having its ower bearing extremity terminated at a plane approximately coincident with the lower end of the implement, and said extension-arm when outwardly swung being adapted to constitute a fulcrum on which the device may be rocked or swung.

7. In a watch-hand remover the combination of opposite upwardly-united tweezerlike members having at their free extremities angularly and inwardly turned wedge-shaped members, a disk having a radial extension of yielding material pivotally mounted on a screw engaging into the inner side of one of said members, and having a countersunk socket for the accommodation of the head of the pivot-screw, and the other side member having a perforation opposite the center of the screw-head, of an extension-arm pivotally connected to and between an upper portion of the implement, and having its lower bearing extremity terminated at a plane ap-- proximately coincident with the lower end of the implement, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachussetts, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERASTUS N. PARKER. Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLOWS, G. R. DRISOOLL. 

